(If I say it’s all true, you won’t believe me. But — well, I was reading Frank Klaasen’s The Transformation of Magic, and John Argentine was discussed, and there was a summary of his career — Padua, Princes in Tower, Prince Arthur, Provost of King’s College Cambridge — and then in the next paragraph it said he had a fine Italian hand. It’s more than anyone could bear not to write a poem about his fine Italian hand!)